Intercooler apparatus and method

US7793710B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Modine Manufacturing Company · US

Inventors

• Bernhard Lamich · Eßlingen, DE
• Denis Bazika · Eßlingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 6, 2006
• Grant date: Sep 14, 2010
• Expiry date: Jul 14, 2029

Classification

• Technology area (CPC F): Mechanical Engineering; Lighting; Heating
• CPC primary: F28F2280/06
• WIPO field: Thermal processes and apparatus
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Some embodiments of the disclosed heat exchanger have flat tubes, corrugated ribs, collection tubes, connection pieces, and a connection plate used (for example) for the attachment of the heat exchanger in a casing through which charge air flows, whereby the individual components of the heat exchanger can be manufactured from aluminum and can be soldered together. In some embodiments, at least four collecting tubes define coolant collection chambers, whereby coolant follows at least one outgoing route lying between first and the second collection tubes, and at least one return route proceeding in an opposite direction lying between third and fourth collecting tubes. The outgoing route can be provided in at least one flat tube-corrugated rib series, while the return route can be provided in at least another flat tube-corrugated rib series, arranged downstream of the first flat tube-corrugated rib series.